WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In their efforts to find a direct trade route to Asia during the age of Old Imperialism, European nations established colonies in the Americas, India, South Africa, and the East Indies, and gained territory along the coasts of Africa and China.

Detailed explanation-2: -In North America, France colonized the New France region, Newfoundland, and recent day Haiti. Former colonies in the Caribbean include Grenada, Nevis, Sait Croix, Dominica, Tobago and several other Islands. In South America, the French took control of parts of Brazil, Iles Malouines, and French Guiana.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main dominating powers of the conference were France, Germany, Great Britain and Portugal. They remapped Africa without considering the cultural and linguistic borders that were already established.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many nations looked to Africa as a source of raw materials and as a market for industrial products. As a result, colonial pow-ers seized vast areas of Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country is called imperialism.

Detailed explanation-5: -Introduction. By the early to mid-seventeenth century, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands were all competing for colonies and trade around the world. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, explorers, conquerors, missionaries, merchants, and adventurers sought to claim new lands to colonize.